[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 14/19] ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: Remove regulator notification handling

[Andrew F. Davis]

On 12/01/2017 07:36 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 03:32:55PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> A regulator being forcefully disabled is a catastrophic event that
>> should never happen to most devices, especially not sound CODECs.
> 
> That's not what the disable notification handling is for.  It's there so
> that the driver can skip having to reinitialize the device if other
> constraints mean the power doesn't actually get turned off when it
> disables the regualtors.  It's nothing to do with forced disables.
> 

Looking into the call sites, at least in this case the only time this
notification will be called, outside the normal enable/disable paths
(which do the same thing here: turn on regmap cache only mode and mark
it dirty), will be during a force disable scenario.